Corporate Shogun
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Affordable, small, high protein food.
- Image Source: Artist Credit
- Permissions: Not Applicable
- Primary Source: Sushi
- Name: Sushi Tube
- Manufacturer: United Agriculture
- Affiliation: NAKAIOMA & Subsidiaries
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Modularity: Optional Ingredients & Condiments
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- White Rice
- Seafood
- Duro-Plastic Container
- Vegetables
- Nori Wrapping
- Plasform Chopsticks
- Classification: Food
- Method of Consumption: Eating
- Average Life: Five Years
- Nutritional Value: High
- Allergies: See Ingredients
- Side Effects: None
- Purpose: Health Food, Rations
- A variety of condiments are available (Some may differ depending on planet)
- Specialized orders can pay additional fees to fully customize ingredients (E.g. own cultural foods)
- Chopsticks optional, other eating utensils can be used
- Sold in most physical marketplaces and available for order on the HoloNet
- Small: Tightly compacted into narrow tube packaging, the UA Sushi Tubes can be easily stored in small spaces and in high numbers. This greatly conveniences consumers anywhere from vendors being able to stockpile them in large quantities to infantrymen in armies across the galaxy being able to carry dozens of Sushi Tubes in their backpacks with zero hinderance.
- High Value: Abundant with protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, the Sushi Tubes are more than sufficient to keep an individual active and moving for a prolonged period of time. Low in fat content, but high in omega-3 fatty acids which contain a number of health benefits including increased brain function, support to the cardiovascular system and natural anti-inflammatory processes, the UA Sushi Tubes are a well advertised and easily accessible health food.
- Cheap: Produced in vast quantities on UA Agri-Worlds from specifically engineered synthetic ingredients, Sushi Tubes are very much affordable to the average person and are relatively easily afforded in large bulk orders.
- Modular: Due to the nature of the packaging, the ingredients of Sushi Tubes are able to be swapped out and replaced depending on the needs of the customer very quickly. If a customer is allergic to seafood or seafood substitutes, or any other particular ingredient, the container(s) holding those ingredients within the tube can be replaced with other options. This also allows a great deal of customer choice when simply deciding on taste.
WEAKNESSES
- Taste: Intended to be mass-produced to potentially feed trillions of beings across the galaxy and to remain in edible condition for years, the ingredients of the Sushi Tubes are entirely synthetic and coated with numerous chemical products in-order to keep them from degrading or going off. Although this has no effect on the nutritional benefits of the meals, it does negatively impact the taste and only a corporate spin doctor would attempt to fool you into thinking they are anywhere as tasty as real fresh sushi.
Originally a humanitarian project, the first Sushi Tubes were designed to be distributed in disaster zones where supply infrastructure had collapsed and massive amounts of food were urgently required, or for cheap cost effective food distribution for the impoverished and homeless populations of certain worlds. As time went on the product's scope widened, eventually beginning to advertise itself towards athletes, law enforcement, military and those in other demanding lines of work. Finally it would see universal release, entering marketplaces and other retailors across the galaxy as the need was recognized for such a cheap and nutritious food product for the trillions of disadvantaged and struggling people in these politically and economically unstable times. Not only sold in Nakaioma-affiliated stores, United Agriculture sells distribution licenses to large and small businesses throughout the galaxy and today it can be found being sold in most places.
